On 06/10/13 05:24, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 10/05/2013 05:21 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 06/10/13 00:19, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Saturday 2013-10-05 16:04, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Pulse audio solves the problem that I had of two applications or more wanting to use sound at the same time, which was impossible for me. Some cards did allow this, mine did not. While it is true that some soundcard do support hardware mixing and some don't, ALSA already has a softmixer - it does not need another one like PA for that. Aaah, and what is its name (in YaST), Jan, please? It's dmix. It's easy to google for.
Hmmm, interesting and thanks for this. But I found this: QUOTE Example configuration: Output with 44.1 KHz at e. g. 16 bit depth, multiple programs at once Why these formats? Because they are standard CDA, because ALSA on its own allows more than one program "to sound" only with dmix — whose resampling algorithm is inferior — and because dmix by default resamples anything lower to 48 KHz (or whatever higher format is playing at the time). Also, some get clicking sounds if at least mpd.conf is not changed this way. What is the downside? These settings cause everything (if necessary) to be resampled to this format, such as material from DVD or TV which usually is at 48 KHz. But there is no known way to have ALSA dynamically change the format, and particularly if you listen to far more CDs than anything else the occasional 48 → 44.1 is not too great a loss. UNQUOTE which does not bode well for Alsa and dmix. The URL from which the above quote is taken is: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Music_Player_Daemon/Tips_and_Tricks BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.11.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org